What's new

Kotlin 1.3.0 and kotlinx.coroutines 1.0.0

What's new

This release has satellite with version number 0.10.7-rc13. It's built with Kotlin 1.3-RC3 and release kotlinx.coroutines 0.30.1-eap13. Please try it and feel free to provide any feedback.

• Fixed "Bad lambda receiver type in verticalLayout's" #673
• Satellite release 0.10.7-rc13

What's new

This release has satellite with version number 0.10.6-eap13. It's built with Kotlin 1.3-M2 and release kotlinx.coroutines 0.26.0-eap13. Please try it and feel free to provide any feedback.

• Satellite release 0.10.6-eap-13 with release kotlinx.coroutines
• Libraries for Android 27 platform
• Loads of unnecessary symbols marked deprecated for removal (#617)
• Snackbar extensions with View receiver (#643)
• Change Snackbar's message type from String to CharSequence (#655)

What's new

• Preview plugin compatibility with Android Studio 3.2 C12 & IDEA 181, Kotlin 1.2+ is required now
• Theme attribute resolve for colors, dimensions and "raw" attributes (#144)
• Shared prefs extensions (#531, #532)
• doBeforeSdk helper function (#567)
• Allow nullable values for intents in the support package (#520)
• Anko SQLite: Support to foreign key constraint actions (#523)
• XmlConverter: Do not fail with exception when id can't be rendered properly (#564)
• XmlConverter: Function dp is unresolved after conversion (#563)

What's new

• DSL for ConstraintLayout
• Preview plugin compatibility with Android Studio 3.1 C6

Bugfixes

• Anko support plugin compatibility with Kotlin 1.1.60+
• Fix Xml to Dsl converter (#370)
• lparams for CollapsingToolbarLayout, now returns correct LayoutParams (#275, #269)
• Context.clipboardManager now returns new ClipboardManager instead of deprecated one (#180)
• Generate layout wrapper for CardView (#269, #357)
• Fix ClassParser's Boolean parser when type is Long (#464)

Breaking Changes

• Removed Dsl for classes from android.support.design.internal.* as they shouldn't be used outside of support library

Other Changes

• TextInputEditText added to anko-design (#205)
• Anko commons dialog extensions now accept CharSequence instead of String (#422)
• Add start and end rules to RelativeLayout.LayoutParams extensions (#497)
• Add allCaps and ems properties to TextView (#459)
• Add snackbar helpers with indefinite duration (#454)
• Allow nullable values in createIntent and startActivity (#465)
• Add extensions for View::backgroundColorResource and TextView::textColorResource (#254)
• Return ComponentName from startService methods (#435)
• Allow alerts to be cancelable (#405)
• Add intent helpers for stopping services (#509)
• Return toast object in toast helper functions (#512)

Changes

• Fixed Anko Support IDE plugin compatibility with Android Studio 3.0 RC1
• Fragment.indeterminateProgressDialog now shows indeterminate progress dialog instead of classic #487
• Added methods for creating and dropping a index for SQLiteDatabase #472

Bugfixes:

• Fix assertion in the Anko Support IDE plugin #387;
• Update kotlinx.coroutines.android dependency (the old one fails to resolve in Android Studio 3.0) #381;
• Fix inconsistency between hasNext() and next() in childrenRecursiveSequence() #388.

🐧 Notable changes:

• Coroutines and DslMarker annotation support;
• Anko Support IDE plugin updated for Android Studio 2.4.

All changes:

Breaking changes:

• DslMarker annotation support (calling lparams() inside View blocks is finally forbidden);
• DSL listeners moved to anko-<platformName>-listeners artifacts (e.g. anko-sdk25-listeners);
• View blocks with the theme parameter renamed to themed…() to avoid disambiguation;
• Removed AnkoLogger(clazz: KClass<*>) and AnkoLogger(obj: Any).

New API:

• anko-<platformName>-coroutines (e.g. anko-sdk25-coroutines) artifacts with the new listener helpers with coroutines support;
• bg() function that executes code in background (wrapper on top of kotlinx.coroutines);
• AlertBuilder interface with core and appcompat implementations. AlertDialogBuilder is deprecated;
• Snackbar helpers #203;
• Dialog.find() method #351;
• foreach() extensions for SparseArray #255;
• Reified version for AnkoLogger (AnkoLogger<MyClass>());
• isError and hasValue to AttemptResult.

Other changes:

• Anko Support IDE plugin upated in order to support Android Studio 2.4;
• Added meta-artifact org.jetbrains.anko:anko;
• Added Anko Commons artifacts for Android support libraries (anko-support-v4-commons, anko-appcompat-v7-commons) #158;
• New Android SDK target: sdk-25;
• Updated Android Support library dependencies;
• anko-common artifact renamed to anko-commons to reflect the naming changes. anko-common is deprecated;
• ClassParser now accepts all primitive types #320;
• Synthetic properties (such as act or ctx) are now inline;
• lparams functions are now inline #338;
• Removed TextView.enabled generated property #245;
• Accessing setter-only property values is now forbidden.

Bugfixes:

• Fix NoSuchMethodError on accessing act property from the support Fragment #311;
• Fix compatibility with Proguard #235;
• Require the relative view id to be set in RelativeView helpers #363.

Breaking changes:

• DSL listeners moved to anko-<platformName>-listeners (e.g. anko-sdk15-listeners) artifacts;
• The custom async() function introduced in 0.10.0-beta1 was removed (use async() from kotlinx.coroutines);
• AnkoLogger(clazz: KClass<*>) and AnkoLogger(obj: Any) functions are removed;

Other changes:

• anko-<platformName>-coroutines (e.g. anko-sdk15-coroutines) artifacts with the new listener helpers with coroutines support;
• lparams functions are now inline #338;
• bg() function that executes code in a background thread and returns Deferred<T>;
• AnkoLogger now has the reified version: AnkoLogger<MyClass>();